A visitor walks past photographs showing the aftermath of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms in the German cities of Berlin (L) and Kassel at an exhibit at the Topography of Terror museum on Nov. 8, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Events took place across Germany this weekend to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, when on Nov. 10, 1938 Nazi gangs across Germany and Austria burned down over 1,000 synagogues, smashed Jewish-owned businesses, looted Jewish residences and killed several hundred Jews. Anti-Semitism was a central component of Adolf Hitler's rise to power and won him wide-spread sympathy among ordinary Germans and Austrians. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

View in the new synagogue of the israelite religion association Wuerttemberg ahead of the opening ceremony on Dec. 2, 2012, in the southern German city Ulm.

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A detail of the new synagogue of the Israelite religion association Wuerttemberg is pictured ahead of the opening ceremony on Dec. 2, 2012, in the southern German city Ulm.

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A woman attending a ceremony that marks the beginning of the Holocaust, left, tries to stop ultra-traditionalist Catholics from interrupting an interfaith event at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, late Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. The small group disrupted by shouting the rosary and the "Our Father" prayer, and spreading pamphlets saying "followers of false gods must be kept out of the sacred temple." The annual ceremony brings together Catholics, Jews and Protestants to mark Kristallnacht. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Pezzoni,DyN)

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The President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Poettering, left, along with Holocaust survivor and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv Yisrael Meiv Lau, right, share a few words with an unknown person prior to a special event promoting tolerance throughout Europe held at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday Nov. 10 , 2008. A series of events are currently taking place in Brussels, marking the 70th anniversary of "Kristallnacht" pogroms in Nazi Germany in 1938. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier.)

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The President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Moshe Kantor, left, arrives along with European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering, right, to attend a special event promoting tolerance throughout Europe held at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday Nov. 10, 2008. A series of events are currently taking place in Brussels, marking the 70th anniversary of "Kristallnacht" pogroms in Nazi Germany in 1938. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier.)

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European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering addresses a special event promoting tolerance throughout Europe held at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday Nov. 10, 2008. A series of events are currently taking place in Brussels, marking the 70th anniversary of "Kristallnacht" pogroms in Nazi Germany in 1938. Behind Poettering, at right, is the Israeli flag. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier.)

A red rose lies at Gleis 17 (platform 17) holocaust memorial at a former cargo railway station in Berlin-Grunewald November 9, 2006, to mark the Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels delivered the incendiary speech that unleashed the November 9-10 pogrom in 1938. Hundreds of synagogues were destroyed across Germany and in parts of Austria, Jewish homes and stores were ransacked and Jews were attacked and beaten to death. From Gleis 17 October 1941 to February 1945, more than 50,000 Berlin Jews were loaded into trains and transported to the Nazi concentration camps, such as Auschwitz.

People stand in front of a new synagoge in Dresden, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001, 63 years after the Nazis burned synagogues in Germany, in a rampage known as Kristallnacht. It is the first new synagogue built in eastern Germany after WW II. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

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General view of a new synagogue, center, and the building of the Jewish parish, left, are shown in Dresden, eastern Germany, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001.The inauguration of the synagogue takes place on Friday, 63 years after the Nazis burned synagogues in Germany, in a rampage known as Kristallnacht. At right in the background is Saxony's state chancellory. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

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Two Modern sandstone cubes linked by a courtyard make up Dresden's New Synagogue. The original synagogue was torched by Nazis on Kristallnacht in 1938. Dresden, Germany: the new Dresden Synagogue built on the site of the Semper Synagogue destroyed in 1938. Photo: Susan Spano/LAT Dresden, Germany: the new Dresden Synagogue built on the site of the Semper Synagogue destroyed in 1938. Photo: Susan Spano/LAT

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Holocaust survivor Barbara Steiner, from Skokie, Illinois speaks to the media in front of what is believed to be a German boxcar used during the Holocaust Nov. 9, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Steiner at the age of 16, was transported in a boxcar similar to this one to the Majdanek extermination camp in Poland. Steiner lost her parents and two brothers in the Holocaust. The boxcar unveiling was part of a program for the 57th anniversary of Kristallnacht and will be a cornerstone for a new Holocaust museum to be built in Skokie, Illinois. (Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Police check a Jewish stone monument on a railway bridge in Berlin Monday, November 9,1998, on the 60th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom (Night of Broken Glass) when Nazi storm troopers destroyed Jewish businesses and synagugues in Germany and Austria. Three small swastikas were scratched around a Star of David on the monument. It was not known exactly when the latest vandalism occured, police said. (AP Photo/Jan Bauer)

Holocaust survivor Barbara Steiner, from Skokie, Illinois speaks to the media in front of what is believed to be a German boxcar used during the Holocaust November 9, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. Steiner at the age of 16, was transported in a boxcar similar to this one to the Majdanek extermination camp in Poland. Steiner lost her parents and two brothers in the Holocaust. The boxcar unveiling was part of a program for the 57th anniversary of Kristallnacht and will be a cornerstone for a new Holocaust museum to be built in Skokie, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Ignatz Bubis, head of Germany's Jewish community, gestures during his speech to the participants of the commemoration on the 60th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom (Night of Broken Glass), when Nazi storm troopers destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, in the Berlin synagogue Monday, Nov. 9, 1998. (AP Photo/Hans Edinger)

German President Roman Herzog gestures during his speech to the participants of the commemoration on the 60th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom (Night of Broken Glass), when Nazi storm troopers destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, in the Berlin synagogue Monday, Nov. 9, 1998. (AP Photo/Hans Edinger)

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What is believed to be a German boxcar used during the Holocaust is displayed during its unveiling November 9, 2005 in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The boxcar unveiling was part of a program for the 57th anniversary of Kristallnacht and will be a cornerstone for a new Holocaust museum to be built in Skokie, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

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A small hole in the wooden structure of what is believed to be a German boxcar used during the Holocaust is seen during its unveiling November 9, 2005 in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The boxcar unveiling was part of a program for the 57th anniversary of Kristallnacht and will be a cornerstone for a new Holocaust museum to be built in Skokie, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

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A pedestrian looks at the wreckage of a Jewish shop in Berlin Nov. 10, 1938, the day after the 'Kristallnacht' rampage, when Nazi thugs set fire to hundreds of synagogues, looted thousands of Jewish businesses and attacked Jews in Germany and Austria. Germany's remembrance of the Nov. 9, 1938 terror, the ``Night of Broken Glass,'' comes amid fresh debate on the nation's relationship with its past--triggered by the government's return to Berlin, the prewar capital from which Adolf Hitler ruled.(APPhoto)

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Holocaust survivor Fritzie Fritzshall gestures as she speaks to the media about her transportation in boxcars during the Holocaust in front of what is believed to be a German boxcar used during the Holocaust Nov. 9, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 13, Fritzshall was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and was later liberated by the Russian army while on a death march from the camp. She lost her mother, two younger brothers and other family members in the Holocaust. The boxcar unveiling was part of a program for the 57th anniversary of Kristallnacht and will be a cornerstone for a new Holocaust museum to be built in Skokie, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Fritzie Fritzshall

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People walk in front of the former crematorium during a wreath-laying ceremony at the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near of Weimar, eastern Germany, on Monday, Nov. 9, 1998, to mark the 60th anniversary of 'Kristallnacht' (Night of Broken Glass) in November 1938, when Nazi storm troopers destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley speaks to the media in front of what is believed to be a German boxcar used during the Holocaust Nov. 9, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois. The boxcar unveiling was part of a program for the 57th anniversary of Kristallnacht and will be a cornerstone for a new Holocaust museum to be built in Skokie, Illinois. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Richard M. Daley

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German President Johannes Rau, left, and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder attend a protest march against hate and anti-foreigner violence in Berlin, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000. Leading German political figures and personalities marched from a prewar Berlin synagogue to the Brandenburg Gate in a march commemorating the Nov. 9, 1938, Kristallnacht pogrom, also known as the 'Night of Broken Glass.' (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

German President Johannes Rau, center, is flanked by Rabbi Ehrenberg, the leader of Germany's Jewish community and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, right during a protest against hate and anti-foreigner violence in Berlin, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000 on the anniversary of the Nazis' infamous 1938 Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom, also known as the 'Night of Broken Glass.' (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, right, and his wife Doris Schroeder-Koepf, hold hands as they march during a protest against hate and anti-foreigner violence in Berlin, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000 to commemorate the Nazis' infamous 1938 Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom, also known as the 'Night of Broken Glass.' . Michel Friedmann of the board of Germany's Jewish community is seen in the backgound, right. (AP Photo/Wolfram Steinberg)

Holocaust survivor Barbara Steiner stands in front of a Nazi-era German rail car Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, that will become the anchor artifact of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center which is slated to open in Skokie, Ill., in 2008. The rail car, unveiled on the 67th anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," is the type used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to transport Jews to concentration camps. Steiner rode in such a car when she and her family were taken to the Majdanek death camp in Poland after the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

German President Johannes Rau, left, and his counterpart Uruguayan President Jorge Batlle light candles during a commemoration ceremony in a B'nai B'rith Jewish organization center in Montevideo, Uruguay on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2003. Rau is attending the ceremony to commemorate the November 9-10, 1938 massacres, also known as Kristallnacht or the "Night of Broken Glass." (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez)

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Holocaust survivor Fritzie Fritzshall gets a kiss from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after she spoke in front of an early 20th century German rail car that was unveiled Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, in Chicago. The car will become the anchor artifact of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center which is scheduled to open in Skokie, Ill. in 2008. The rail car is the type used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to transport Jews to concentration camps. When Fritzshall was 12, she rode in a similar car when she was taken to a concentration camp. Her grandfather died on the train. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Samuel R. Harris, right, a Holocaust survivor and president of the Holocaust and Memorial Foundation of Illinois, gets a hug from State Sen. Jeffrey Schoenberg in front of a Nazi-era German rail car Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, that was unveiled on the 67th anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," in Chicago. The car will become the anchor artifact of the Museum and Education Center which is slated to open in Skokie, Ill. in 2008. The rail car is the type used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to transport Jews to concentration camps. Harris was 8-years-old when he rode in a similar "cattle car" in Poland in May 1942. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Kurt Biedenkopf, governor of the German State of Saxony, Roman Koenig, president of Dresden's Jewish parish, Erich Iltgen, Saxony's state parliament speaker, and Herbert Wagner, mayor of Dresden, from left to right, cut the first turf for the construction of a new Jewish synagogue in the eastern German town of Dresden Monday, Nov. 9, 1998. Sixty years after the Nazis burned the synagogues in Germany, in a rampage known as 'Kristallnacht', new ground was broken for a new synagogue on the site of the old one in Dresden. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

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Roman Koenig, Chairman of the Jewish parish in Dresden holds a Torah roll during a procession at the inauguration ceremony for a new synagogue in Dresden, Germany, Friday, Nov. 9, 2001. 63 years after the Nazis destroyed more than 1,300 synagogues during Kristallnacht, on Nov. 9, 1938, the inauguration for the new synagogue takes place on the site where the old one stood. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

Former U.S. President George Bush, left, and his wife Barbara attend a memorial service in the Jewish community center in Berlin on November 9, 1999 commemorating the 61st anniversary of Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht, the 1938 night of orchestrated nationwide attacks on Jewish stores, synagogues and cemeteries that presaged the Holocaust. Bush is also in Berlin to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall which also took place on a November 9. At right is German President Johannes Rau. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

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Dan Coats, US Ambassador to Germany, right, talks to Paul Spiegel, President of Germany`s Central Council of Jews, at the inauguration ceremony for a new synagogue in Dresden, Germany, Friday, Nov. 9, 2001. 63 years after the Nazis destroyed more than 1,300 synagogues during Kristallnacht, on Nov. 9, 1938, the inauguration of the new synagogue takes place on the site where the old one stood. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

Holocaust survivor Barbara Steiner stands in front of a Nazi-era German rail car Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, that will become the anchor artifact of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center which is slated to open in Skokie, Ill., in 2008. The rail car, unveiled on the 67th anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass," is the type used by the Nazis during the Holocaust to transport Jews to concentration camps. Steiner rode in such a car when she and her family were taken to the Majdanek death camp in Poland after the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)